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Cut Hands - Rarities I EP (Susan Lawly, 2018)

Never really been into William Bennett's Cut Hands project much, but I keep tabs on it because I'm still a sucker for Whitehouse and anything those guys cook up. Cut Hands always seemed a little...amateurish? I guess? Not harsh enough for noise and the African beats and instrumentation used sound kinda...generic? Like just loop some African drums over a breakbeat and you've got Cut Hands. Nevertheless. There's a few good cuts (ha) on here - "Festival of the Dead Ondo" is where the shtick works best, and is more a fully fleshed out track than we usually get from this project, and "Drink Them Like Milk" has an insistent rhythm (no harshness) that is undeniable. "Prototaxic Distortion" is a slow, menacing more ambient-ish track and "Damballah 58 (Benin Mix)" is one of those predictable repetitive Afro rhythm tracks but it goes on for so long it almost comes back around to being enjoyable. Two other shorter ambient pieces that make up this EP.

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